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Carmela Mose is an inmate at Central California Women’s Facility and the winner of the Securus original hip-hop track contest. Her song, “I Think,” was chosen as the winner by the rapper Lecrae, who joined Mose for a studio session – the only one in 10 years that Lecrae has ever cried. LX News storyteller Ngozi Ekeledo meets them both...

A long-time Connecticut inmate and prisoner rights advocate recently had his sentence reduced by a few years. In 1998, 21-year-old Michael Liebowitz was convicted on a felony assault charge, according to his Department of Corrections profile. He was sentenced to 28 years in prison, which would put his release in June 2026. He is currently an inmate at Osborn Correctional…

Recent reporting on the federal prison system has revealed layer after layer of abuse, neglect and leadership missteps in the Bureau of Prisons — including failure to tell families when a prisoner is severely ill or dying.

A follow-up to an earlier Associated Press investigation finds that the crisis at the federal correctional institution in Dublin, California, is far from over.

Grassroots organizations across the country battle prison restrictions and pandemic struggles to send books to incarcerated people.

Julius Jones is sitting in an Oklahoma prison, no longer scheduled for execution but with no chance at release. Gov. Kevin Stitt commuted Jones’ sentence to life without parole in November 2021, after the state parole board expressed about the doubts about the evidence that led to his conviction for the murder of Paul Howell. Rev. Keith Jossell, Jones’ pastor,...

The coronavirus pandemic and its impact on the labor market have pushed many prison staffing systems into crisis

“They didn’t know what to do with us,” says Jermaine Archer, who caught COVID while incarcerated at Rikers Island. The New York City jail holds people pretrial and has faced criticism for deaths and crowded conditions. NBC New York’s Kay Angrum was live outside after 2 counter-protesting groups spoke on behalf of corrections workers and the incarcerated.

Pope Francis has called for “more humane” prison life in the wake of bloodshed in a prison in Ecuador in which 118 people died and dozens more were injured.

A top DOJ official cited the more than 40 suspected or confirmed homicides of Georgia prison inmates in announcing the civil rights investigation.

The California’s high court has ruled that prison inmates cannot legally possess marijuana behind bars under the state’s 2016 law allowing recreational pot.

Here’s how one nonprofit is helping the formerly incarcerated become entrepreneurs.

Federal regulators are considering allowing state prisons across the country more technological options to combat contraband cellphones.

Texas death row inmate Quintin Jones is scheduled to be executed May 19. But Jones is pleading to Gov. Greg Abbott for clemency, telling the New York Times contributor Suleika Jaouad that he is a different person than he was 2 decades ago. Jones was put on death row after confessing to the murder of his great-aunt. His family has...

California is giving 76,000 inmates the opportunity to leave prison earlier

The report provided new details on last spring’s catastrophic decision to move inmates from the California Institution for Men east of Los Angeles to San Quentin State Prison north of San Francisco. The inmates were put onto buses for the more than 400-mile (680 kilometer) trip and the tight quarters increased the risk of infections spreading.

Connecticut’s unionized prison guards expressed anger Wednesday over what they say is the lack of a plan to vaccinate them against COVID-19. Jody Barr, the executive director of AFSCME Council 4, said the union was told there would be a plan to vaccinate prison employees by early January, but they have yet to hear when they might get the vaccine,…

Connecticut Chief Operating Officer Josh Geballe said the Biden Administration’s plan to increase vaccine allocation means an increase from 46,000 to 53,000 first doses per week for at least the next three weeks.

One in every five state and federal prisoners in the United States has tested positive for the coronavirus, a rate more than four times as high as the general population.

Connecticut officials are paying $250,000 and admitting no wrongdoing in a settlement of a lawsuit brought by a state prison inmate who gave birth on a toilet in her cell and claimed she was denied medical care, according to details of the agreement obtained by The Associated Press on Saturday. Attorney General William Tong’s office provided the AP with a…